To kill a mocking bird
...a chair to get a box down for her, she threw herself on him and started kissing him. Mayella’s father, Bob Ewell, peered threw the window at what was going on inside his house. Mr. Ewell, ashamed of what really happened, took Tom to court proclaiming, “I seen that black ****** yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella!” Mr. Ewell knew that no one would believe a black man’s word against a white man’s testimony. Tom is compared with a mockingbird because he has done nothing wrong. He has only tried to aid the pitiable girl by doing her a favor, just as “mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy.” Tom is not the only one compared to a mockingbird. Mr. Arthur Radley is also compared to a mockingbird. Arthur (also named Boo) is a man that sits in his house all day. He is finally known to stay in his house because he does not want to deal with all the horror that goes on in the world. Boo has been known only to wonder outside of his dwelling during the night when everyone else is asleep in their beds. One dreadfully, dark night while Jem and Scout are on their way home, they hear footsteps behind them. The footsteps only move while the children walk. Finally, when the children pause one last time to hear the steps; they hear the footsteps taking a wide, running pace straight for them. The children scream and run, doing anything possible to keep from being taken with their intruder. Uncovering the mysterious scene, the reader now knows that Mr. Bob Ewell was after the kids, but somehow Mr. Ewell wound up dead. Boo Radley is finally revealed as the slayer of the horrifying man. Here Boo is contrasted with a mockingbird for the reason that Boo has never hurt the world in any way. By killing Bob Ewell, he saved the children f...